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Subject: Re: Canada - the Great Pansy Nation (was...)
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From: kmak@ntorh373.bnr.ca (Kenneth Mak)
Date: 26 Aug 1994 18:46:16 GMT
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In article , Stafford@Ultra1.Winona.MSUS.edu (john stafford) writes:
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|>
|> I get it. You are a nation of dogs who believe you are chasing
|> your collective tail to an honorable end. I have news for you. We
|> Americans have the concept of individuality and as individuals
|> we accept the responsibility and consequences of freedom. You cannot.
If you're trying to act like the archetypical, stereotypical, and boorish
American, you get my vote. Excuse me if we, as Canadians, don't buy into
your vaunted concept of individual liberties. As Canadians, we tend to
accept government intervention in order to maintain an orderly society.
If this makes Canada a great pansy nation, as your oh-so-eloquent subject
line implies, than so be it. We, as Canadians, accept the idea of
government run health insurance and gun control. We don't view government
as evil--something requiring elaborate checks and balances to make sure
that all branches of goverment are ineffectual. Instead, we view
government to be more paternalistic and hence, are far more accepting
of socialist ideas (please note in your narrow minded brain that
socialism is not communism).
|>
|> However, I sense that this is changing with the current American
|> generation. Maybe the US and Canada will eventually merge into
|> THE GREAT PANSY NATION. Man, I'm glad I won't be alive for that.
Maybe Americans are (proverbally), waking up and smelling the coffee. If
I was an American, I'd be afraid to walk the streets at night--in fear of
getting shot. And heaven forbid if I were to ever get sick. For me, the
price of your kind of freedom is a price that I think is too steep.
Ken.
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